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Waitress In The Sky" is about Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg's big sister, Julie, who was a flight attendant. The song comes from the perspective of an abusive passenger who demands top-flight treatment while condescendingly declaring in the chorus, "You ain't nothin' but a waitress in the sky." In Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements by Bob Mehr, Westerberg is quoted as saying, "I was playing the character of the creep who demands to be treated like a king.